Subtitled The Twelve Technological Forces That Will Shape our Future, Mr. Kelly, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, knows what he is talking… Read More Just to whet your appetite… book selections for upcoming months – (Clayton Christensen; Robert Cialdini; Tim Ferris; and other authors). (Warning: we reserve the right to change these at any time…). Tomorrow, at the October 7 First Friday Book Synopsis: I loved the book I am presenting: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly. MORE

In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the rule. MORE

Clayton Christensen. Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program. At LDRLB ( @LDRLB ), we draw much of our content from the research and writings of the world’s top professors. Most are from business schools, others from a variety of fields relevant to leading organizations. These professors consistently build upon the body of knowledge and further the goal of evidence-based leadership. We thought it’d be worthwhile to share with you the people we learn the most from. MORE

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. Andreessen: I think a lot of it is based on the underlying technology change. The way I think about it is — at least in the world that I work in, sort of tech and Internet media — bundles emerge as a consequence of the current technology. That newspaper bundle was based on the distribution technology of a time and place. And then what we look for is for something to have changed in the underlying technology. MORE

job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT. Or maybe modern information technology just keeps getting cheaper. MORE

Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Are you looking for the top leadership experts to follow in 2015? Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. MORE

There are many cool technologies floating around, but they don’t fit in the “margin now mindset that has pervaded the company. My post was focused on SAP’s innovation ills, but I can’t and don’t separate the technology (and process) from the people. MORE

With the continued rapid development of technology taking the concept of globalization and turning it into hard reality facing businesses of all sizes, it is time for executives and entrepreneurs to examine their current business models from a disruptive perspective. MORE

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. Christensen’s influence on the business world has been profound. MORE

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. Christensen’s work is part of a rich body of research that, taken as a whole, explains more than any single theory can. MORE

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. When Christensen conducted the research for The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at industries that were asset-heavy. MORE

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Disruptive innovation Education Information & technologyMORE

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. MORE

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. If you are in the business of making carburetors you are at risk of technological innovation putting you out of business. MORE

Badaracco Karen Christensen Lessons from the Sandbox Liquid Brand Agency Marty Neumeier McKinsey Quarterly Michael A. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within […]. MORE

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. MORE

People understandably get excited about new digital technologies, whether it’s the digital camera that is cheaper than developing rolls upon rolls of film, or the photo-sharing apps that – in turn — make your iPhone camera easier to use than your old digital camera. MORE

Venture capitalist Chris Dixons declaration , after plunking $50 million down on Buzzfeed, that he was investing in a technology company has been causing a bit of head-scratching and gentle mockery in media circles. When Buzzfeed editors do it, its technology. Which you could, with some justification, call a technology. Heres Dixon explaining his thinking on his blog: Many of todays great media companies were built on top of emerging technologies. MORE

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. MORE

How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Best known as the technology behind bitcoin, blockchain enables a ledger of transactions to be shared across a network of participants. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Many industries have experienced disruption, due to technologies that successfully reduced inefficiencies and frictions, often disintermediating established players in the process. MORE

Add to this that more and more interfaces are standardized and subjected to competition (per Clay Christensen ) and we are seeing an emerging alphabet — components that can be assembled in endless combinations as manifestations of unique ideas. Note: Carl & I met at BIF9. MORE

How businesses continue to develop and deploy information and communications technologies will profoundly affect whether prosperity is inclusive or exclusive. Collaborative platforms allow people to combine their measurements and observations of large-scale phenomena (such as water quality ), while advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and sheer computational power extend the powers of human intellect just as earlier technologies amplified human strength. MORE

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” Christensen, Raynor, and McDonald argue that Uber is not disruptive because it offers neither a low-end service, nor a new market. MORE

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology It’s always tempting at this time of year to try to make a definitive list of the best ideas from the past 12 months. But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? useful? MORE

Christensen. Here’s the description (from Wikipedia): A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. We know of the value of disruptive change, described best by Clayton M. MORE

Bob's blog entries Clayton Christensen Strategy’s strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt Dan P. third generation] cellular technology high-bandwidth opportunities are being overhyped in this 3G game technologists often overshoot consumer demand speculative judgments are the essence of strategic thinking Strategic thinking helps us take positions in a world that is confusing and uncertain ambiguity and uncertainty are the flip side of opportunity MORE

It’s so easy to “communicate” through technology-assisted means that some of us have trouble remembering the last truly fascinating, life-changing conversation we’ve had. Christensen is a man of extraordinary talents and among them has been his ability to converse.in MORE

Those companies are the closest things to fruit flies that the business world will ever see." - From The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. ChristensenWhen I began my search for an answer to the puzzle of why the best firms can fail, a friend offered some sage advice. Those who study genetics avoid studying humans," he noted. MORE

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). The simple lesson is that using public money to make big bets on individual companies and their technologies is incredibly risky — especially when China is making similar bets that are orders of magnitude bigger on its companies. Government Sustainability TechnologyMORE

Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article. Growth strategy Technology Health Article MORE

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. MORE

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant. While the value chain will optimize for specific circumstances, often technologies are created that eliminate the need for certain pieces of an industry's value chain. In the 1990's, cellular technology eliminated the usefulness of physical phone lines in the telephone value chain. Business is dynamic. MORE

Conventional wisdom holds that new technology requires highly educated workers. There is little doubt that new technologies have taken a heavy toll on less educated workers not only in manufacturing industries, but also in routine white-collar jobs. Managers need to understand the role of technological maturity, the value of experience, and how employees’ technical skills develop under different business models. Much of this technology has been around for a long time. MORE

That is a remarkable example of how technology will reshape how we organize to get work done at scale in the future. Innovation Technology Managing organizations Digital ArticleUber, the car-sharing service, has become ubiquitous. It’s now a multi-billion-dollar global business. MORE

but not too much Robert Leslie/TED Conference Say it like yourself Say something important TED FellowsTEDx programs the TED Conference TEDGlobal TED Talks video site three worlds: Technology/ Entertainment/Design To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others Wall Street Journal MORE

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M. Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic, I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published. In his Introduction, Christensen makes his objective crystal clear: “This book is [.]. MORE

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. MORE

But this confidence served as a platform that allowed Andy to learn important things from every person — even Clayton Christensen. Technology Business education Digital ArticleFederico Beccari. I am easily a foot taller than Andy Grove. MORE

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To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company.

Subtitled The Twelve Technological Forces That Will Shape our Future, Mr. Kelly, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, knows what he is talking… Read More Just to whet your appetite… book selections for upcoming months – (Clayton Christensen; Robert Cialdini; Tim Ferris; and other authors). (Warning: we reserve the right to change these at any time…). Tomorrow, at the October 7 First Friday Book Synopsis: I loved the book I am presenting: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly.

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M. Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic, I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published. In his Introduction, Christensen makes his objective crystal clear: “This book is [.].

But this confidence served as a platform that allowed Andy to learn important things from every person — even Clayton Christensen. Technology Business education Digital ArticleFederico Beccari. I am easily a foot taller than Andy Grove.

but not too much Robert Leslie/TED Conference Say it like yourself Say something important TED FellowsTEDx programs the TED Conference TEDGlobal TED Talks video site three worlds: Technology/ Entertainment/Design To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others Wall Street Journal

Badaracco Karen Christensen Lessons from the Sandbox Liquid Brand Agency Marty Neumeier McKinsey Quarterly Michael A. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within […].

Bob's blog entries Clayton Christensen Strategy’s strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt Dan P. third generation] cellular technology high-bandwidth opportunities are being overhyped in this 3G game technologists often overshoot consumer demand speculative judgments are the essence of strategic thinking Strategic thinking helps us take positions in a world that is confusing and uncertain ambiguity and uncertainty are the flip side of opportunity

People understandably get excited about new digital technologies, whether it’s the digital camera that is cheaper than developing rolls upon rolls of film, or the photo-sharing apps that – in turn — make your iPhone camera easier to use than your old digital camera.

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. When Christensen conducted the research for The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at industries that were asset-heavy.

Christensen. Here’s the description (from Wikipedia): A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. We know of the value of disruptive change, described best by Clayton M.

Venture capitalist Chris Dixons declaration , after plunking $50 million down on Buzzfeed, that he was investing in a technology company has been causing a bit of head-scratching and gentle mockery in media circles. When Buzzfeed editors do it, its technology. Which you could, with some justification, call a technology. Heres Dixon explaining his thinking on his blog: Many of todays great media companies were built on top of emerging technologies.

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant. While the value chain will optimize for specific circumstances, often technologies are created that eliminate the need for certain pieces of an industry's value chain. In the 1990's, cellular technology eliminated the usefulness of physical phone lines in the telephone value chain. Business is dynamic.

Badaracco Karen Christensen Lessons from the Sandbox Liquid Brand Agency Marty Neumeier McKinsey Quarterly Michael A. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within […].

Bob's blog entries Clayton Christensen Strategy’s strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt Dan P. third generation] cellular technology high-bandwidth opportunities are being overhyped in this 3G game technologists often overshoot consumer demand speculative judgments are the essence of strategic thinking Strategic thinking helps us take positions in a world that is confusing and uncertain ambiguity and uncertainty are the flip side of opportunity

People understandably get excited about new digital technologies, whether it’s the digital camera that is cheaper than developing rolls upon rolls of film, or the photo-sharing apps that – in turn — make your iPhone camera easier to use than your old digital camera.

Conventional wisdom holds that new technology requires highly educated workers. There is little doubt that new technologies have taken a heavy toll on less educated workers not only in manufacturing industries, but also in routine white-collar jobs. Managers need to understand the role of technological maturity, the value of experience, and how employees’ technical skills develop under different business models. Much of this technology has been around for a long time.

It’s so easy to “communicate” through technology-assisted means that some of us have trouble remembering the last truly fascinating, life-changing conversation we’ve had. Christensen is a man of extraordinary talents and among them has been his ability to converse.in

Those companies are the closest things to fruit flies that the business world will ever see." - From The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. ChristensenWhen I began my search for an answer to the puzzle of why the best firms can fail, a friend offered some sage advice. Those who study genetics avoid studying humans," he noted.

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear.

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. Christensen’s influence on the business world has been profound.

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change.

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. If you are in the business of making carburetors you are at risk of technological innovation putting you out of business.

How businesses continue to develop and deploy information and communications technologies will profoundly affect whether prosperity is inclusive or exclusive. Collaborative platforms allow people to combine their measurements and observations of large-scale phenomena (such as water quality ), while advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and sheer computational power extend the powers of human intellect just as earlier technologies amplified human strength.

How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Best known as the technology behind bitcoin, blockchain enables a ledger of transactions to be shared across a network of participants. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Many industries have experienced disruption, due to technologies that successfully reduced inefficiencies and frictions, often disintermediating established players in the process.

That is a remarkable example of how technology will reshape how we organize to get work done at scale in the future. Innovation Technology Managing organizations Digital ArticleUber, the car-sharing service, has become ubiquitous. It’s now a multi-billion-dollar global business.

job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT. Or maybe modern information technology just keeps getting cheaper.

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. Christensen’s work is part of a rich body of research that, taken as a whole, explains more than any single theory can.

With the continued rapid development of technology taking the concept of globalization and turning it into hard reality facing businesses of all sizes, it is time for executives and entrepreneurs to examine their current business models from a disruptive perspective.

Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article. Growth strategy Technology Health Article

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). The simple lesson is that using public money to make big bets on individual companies and their technologies is incredibly risky — especially when China is making similar bets that are orders of magnitude bigger on its companies. Government Sustainability Technology

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” Christensen, Raynor, and McDonald argue that Uber is not disruptive because it offers neither a low-end service, nor a new market.

There are many cool technologies floating around, but they don’t fit in the “margin now mindset that has pervaded the company. My post was focused on SAP’s innovation ills, but I can’t and don’t separate the technology (and process) from the people.

Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Are you looking for the top leadership experts to follow in 2015? Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker.

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Disruptive innovation Education Information & technology

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market.

Clayton Christensen. Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program. At LDRLB ( @LDRLB ), we draw much of our content from the research and writings of the world’s top professors. Most are from business schools, others from a variety of fields relevant to leading organizations. These professors consistently build upon the body of knowledge and further the goal of evidence-based leadership. We thought it’d be worthwhile to share with you the people we learn the most from.

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology It’s always tempting at this time of year to try to make a definitive list of the best ideas from the past 12 months. But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? useful?

Add to this that more and more interfaces are standardized and subjected to competition (per Clay Christensen ) and we are seeing an emerging alphabet — components that can be assembled in endless combinations as manifestations of unique ideas. Note: Carl & I met at BIF9.

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. Andreessen: I think a lot of it is based on the underlying technology change. The way I think about it is — at least in the world that I work in, sort of tech and Internet media — bundles emerge as a consequence of the current technology. That newspaper bundle was based on the distribution technology of a time and place. And then what we look for is for something to have changed in the underlying technology.

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